"Social" promotion defrauds students, and these victims of educational malpractice are entitled to reparations in the form of highly expert remediation, but doing the right thing in this is too expensive in the short term.

Much to the contrary, once we look honestly at the horribly fractured psyche in that individual or someone who rapes or someone who abuses children or someone who blows up a building full of innocent people or someone who defrauds others of their life savings, we realize the very real danger such people represent in society and the very real need to contain them—sometimes forever.

Mr. Vance, now in his second year in office, said that under his legislative plan a broker who defrauds a customer of $2,000 could be sentenced to up to 1 1/3 to four years in prison, while a large-scale fraud could bring an 8 1/3- to 25-year sentence, and a mandatory minimum term of one to three years.